TRICK FLYING.
HAMILTON PILOT FINED.
PROTECTION OF POPULATED AREAS.
CASE BROUGHT AS WARNING,
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, Wednesday. Stanley James Blackmore, a wellknown Hamilton pilot, was convicted and fined £1 for trick ilying over the town. The evidence of constables showed that Blackmore came down to an altitude of about 1000 ft and went into a half loop. Defendant said he started from the Te Rapa aerodrome and flew on an even keel over the town. He dived slightly at a few degrees off the horizontal, and he then put the machine on a slight bank and came round in a circle. That was a stalling turn. turned the machine to an angle of 60 deg, but did not turn upside down. It was necessary to bank when turning. In his opinion he did not indulge in trickflying, which consisted of spinning, rolling, looping the loop, and what was known as crazy flying. Stunting was not trick flying. Dr. M. M. Hockin, superintendent of the Waikato Hospital, said lie was at the Te Rapa aerodrome when Blackmore flew over Hamilton. He saw the machine do several stalling turns. Blackmore did not do any trick flying, but performed easy, safe evolutions. Witness had done 12 hours' flying himself, and knew that people often thought a machine was turning over when it was not. Witness was two miles from the 'plane. Thomas Joseph Henry, joiner, Hamilton, who was in the aeroplane with Blackmore, said the machine die" not turn more than 45 deg. from the horizontal. The machine did not descend below 1000 ft. Four turns were made. They were not essential turns, but were quite common. The magistrate, Mr. Wyvern Wilson, said Blackmore had admitted that he was stunting over the gasworks. It appeared that he was zig-zagging and carrying out unnecessary manoeuvres. What he was doing constituted trick flying. To attain a liigli rate of speed
he dived and then performed the unnecessary movements in doubling on his tracks. The regulations provided that ordinary flying could be conducted over a town at a certain height, but anything in the nature of extraordinary flying must be conducted over a town or thicklypopulated area. The regulations provided for a penalty of £50, but as the case had brought as a warning defendant would be convicted and fined fl. I
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 72, 26 March 1931, Page 10
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